original form of S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks?

[geoffrey]

This module was begun early in 1976 when TSR was contemplating publication of a science fantasy role playing game. Jim Ward had already shown us some rough notes on METAMORPHOSIS ALPHA; I thought it would be a splendid idea to introduce Jim’s game at Origins II, and introduce the concept to D&D players by means of the tournament scenario. I laid out the tournament from old “Greyhawk Castle” campaign material involving a spaceship, and Rob Kuntz helped me to populate the ruined vessel. Both this scenario and METAMORPHOSIS ALPHA proved successful, but while the latter has been continually available since mid-1976 only a few copies of the tournament dungeon used for Origins II have been around.

The above is from the preface to Gary Gygax's S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks.

Has anyone here ever seen a copy of this D&D tournament dungeon used at Origins II?

[Zenopus]

There are a few pictures of a manuscript here, although I'm not sure if this is a "tournament copy" or an earlier draft:
lordofthegreendragons.blogspot.com/2010/11/d-d-origins-ii-expedition-to-barrier.html

[grodog]

Those are pics from the eBay auction which sold the Origins II S3 version (and the Origins I S1 version too, in the same set of auctions). I can post more details about the S3 tourney version tomorrow after I get our game summary from today's campaign posted on our group's forum. Was there some specific info you were looking for about the S3 tourney, Geoffrey?

[geoffrey]

Jun 11, 2016 17:00:03 GMT -6 grodog said:

Those are pics from the eBay auction which sold the Origins II S3 version (and the Origins I S1 version too, in the same set of auctions). I can post more details about the S3 tourney version tomorrow after I get our game summary from today's campaign posted on our group's forum. Was there some specific info you were looking for about the S3 tourney, Geoffrey?

No, nothing in particular. I'd be interested in anything you have to share.

[noffham]

I played in that tournament at Origins II. Didn't get to look at the document though... ;-(

[Zenopus]

paleologos takes a detailed look at what we know about the tournament version of this module:

Origins II: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks